Inmates from the Clark County Jail’s PRIDE Program will be cleaning up Raynor Park in Park Layne according to Clark County Sheriff Gene Kelly. “The Inmates will be cleaning the park of brush and tree limbs” said Kelly, adding that the debris will be run through a wood chipper. The clean up is scheduled to begin at 8:30AM on Monday, March 30.

Grammy-winning Christian singer Michael W. Smith is set to play the Kuss Auditorium next month as part of The Salvation Army Springfield Corps’ largest fundraiser event of the year. Smith, whose career has spanned the past three decades, said he is honored to perform for the benefit of the Salvation Army in Clark County, as he said he finds himself playing for the charitable organization at least once per year.

Smith, from West Virginia but based out of Nashville, said he came to fully appreciate the actions of the Salvation Army during the historic Nashville flood in 2010. After receiving a record-breaking 17 inches of rain in 36 hours, the Cumberland River crested in Nashville at nearly 52-feet in early May of 2010, a whopping 12 feet above flood stage. 11 people lost their lives in Nashville because of the flood, and the Nashville Metro Planning Department estimated at least two billion dollars in private property damage.

Representatives from twelve Clark County agencies and organizations competed in a volleyball tournament Friday evening in memory of Deputy Suzanne Hopper—many of whom were proud to consider Hopper a friend. Hopper was a founder and co-chair of the volleyball tournament which began eight years as a fundraiser for Special Olympics. After her death in 2011, tournament organizers asked Hopper’s family if the annual event could be re-named in honor of the fallen deputy with a special place in her heart for Special Olympics, to which they graciously obliged.